Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1936)

ing capacity of 600. Nederland has no theatre at present. Walt Bradley of the Moon theatre at Neligh, Neb., has installed a Supreme cooling system. Charles Peterson of the Windsor, Hampton, la., is completing a new theatre at Hampton to be known as the Lido. The building housed a theatre ten years ago. The Lido has 300 seats. Carolina Playhouses, Inc., of Ayden, N. C, with authorized capital of $25,000 and subscribed stock of $300, has been chartered to operate motion picture theatres. The principals include Wilbur C. Ormond of Ayden; H. C. Ormond and Mrs. Ada Hardee Ormond, of Hookerton. The Crockett Theatre Company, Inc., has been incorporated with a capital of 1,000 shares of no par value, by B. E. Kragen and Clarice Collister. The firm has theatre property at Crockett, Calif. Archie Hurley has opened a new house at Tucumcari, N. M. He has named it the New theatre. Valley Amusement Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, with authorized capitalization of $10,000, has been incorporated by David M. Levy, Alfred H. Myers and M. H. Koodish. Jack Thomas has opened a theatre on Clay Street in San Francisco. Ed Conahan, former assistant manager of the Isis theatre in Denver, has been promoted to the managership of the Hiawatha theatre. He succeeds Louis Williams, who was moved to Walsenburg to take over the position of city manager, succeeding Wayne Gossett, who resigned. F. Rogers and others have organized the Perland Company, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla., to engage in the motion picture business. The authorized capitalization is 100 shares, par value $100 each. Tam & Pierovich are having plans prepared for a two-story theatre and office building at Jackson, Calif. The theatre will seat 700. L. P. Langford, former manager of the Cleveland branch of the National Theatre Supply Company, and Ernest Forbes of Detroit, have purchased the active stock of the Oliver Theatre Supply, Inc., owned by the late E. E. Oliver, and will continue the business under the old name. The name of Forbes' supply company in Detroit will take on the same name as the Cleveland office. Plans will include another branch in Cincinnati. Among the leading standard lines distributed by the Oliver Supply Company, Inc., are Motiograph projectors, DaLite screens, Brenkert equipment. Dick Wilbur has been made manager of the new Queen theatre, opened early in July at Honolulu, T. H., by Franklin Theatres. This house, seating 800, is the seventh in a chain that has been built up in the past year and a half. Nate Schultz is increasing the seating capacity of his Union theatre, Cleveland. Other parts of the theatre are also being remodeled. Jerry Steel is enlarging his Apollo theatre, Oberlin. He leased the adjoining store room, knocked out the intervening wall and has redecorated the entire reconstructed house. T. B. Edwards has purchased the theatre at Marysville, Calif., operated by Harvey Miller and associates. V. T. Touchett, manager of the Retlaw and Fond du Lac theatres in Fond du Lac, Wis., has installed Western Electric sound equipment in both houses. William Gustine has arranged to remodel the Sanger theatre Building, Sanger, Calif. J. B. Lima has purchased the Lincoln theatre in Pleasanton, Calif., from Charles Chicazola. L. M. Neely, owner of five theatres in western and north central Alabama, has remodeled his Strand theatre in Oneonta, Ala. The Mayfield Center theatre, Cleveland Heights, being built by Louis Israel, will be opened about Labor Day. The house is now being decorated. Miss Josephine Oliver, daughter of the late E. E. Oliver of the Oliver Theatre Supply Company, has been on the road selling theatre supplies since the death of his father. A. G. Basil has purchased the Tokay theatre in South Bend., Wash., from Joe Johnson, Ernest, Joe and William Leber. Harry Ulsh, operating the Lane and Rose Theatres in Cle Elum, Wash, has merged with L. A. Gillespie, who operates houses at Tonasket, Orville and Brewster. Since the consolidation they have purchased the Paramount theatre at Okanogan, Wash. Asher Levy, president of Ashley Theatres, owner of the Garrick in Madison, Wis., announces that the house, dark for many months, will be reopened this fall. New seats, carpeting and furnishings will be installed. Redwood Theatres, Inc., headed by George Mann and Morgan Walsh, has purchased the National Theatre, Marysville, Calif., from Mrs. I. C. Evans. Work on the new Bear theatre in Berea, Ohio, is going forward rapidly. It is expected to be completed the middle of August. Owners are P. E. Essick, Dan Stearns and Henry Fichensher, all of Cleveland, and Harry Flinn of Berea. Michael Lencione, manager of the Falls theatre in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., has erected a new marquee, redecorated the exterior of the theatre, and renovated the lobby with new carpeting and drapes. Fred Dickinson of Brookfield, Mo., is constructing a new "modernistic" theatre at Marceline, Mo., which will be operated by the Glen W. Dickinson circuit. The building will cost $15,000, exclusive of equipment and fixtures, and the house will seat around 500. It has been tentatively named the Chief because Marceline is a Santa Fe railroad center. Louis Seibers of the Dickinson circuit, is supervising the planning. Morris Hadelman, and his son, Samuel, operators of the Shelton theatre and of the State in New Haven, Conn., have leased the Capitol theatre in Bridgeport, now run by Lou Anger, beginning in the fall. Ground has been broken for a 1100-seat theatre in La Crosse, Wis., by Welworth Theatres, Inc., of Minneapolis. Jack Gilead has opened the Vienna theatre in Vienna, W. Va. George Ebeck has begun extensive remodeling of the Capitol theatre in Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Dave Freedman, former operator of the Jewel in Brooklyn, N. Y., is erecting a new 600-seat house in that borough of New York City. W. A. Mendenhall, head of Menmar theatres, Boise, Ida., has purchased a building in that city and will remodel it into an 800-seat theatre. July 25, 1936 17